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René Jara’s (“HA-ra’s”) work on this form has noted the “emergency” narrative in examples of them like Soy un delincuente and Si me permiten hablar. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give the Spanish-language name of this form of nonfictional, first-person narrative dictated by typically illiterate Latin American activists. One of these texts was turned into the book I, Rigoberta Menchú.
ANSWER: testimonios [prompt on testimonial biography]
[10e] Ruth Behar’s Translated Woman is an example of a testimonio recorded by a social scientist in this field. Philippe Bourgois’s book In Search of Respect is an example of the “new ethnography” tradition practiced in this field.
ANSWER: anthropology [or word forms like anthropological]
[10m] In an early testimonio, anthropologist Miguel Barnet recorded the memories of a 103-year-old former slave from this country named Esteban Montejo. A poet from this country critiqued US imperialism in the essay “Our America.”
ANSWER: Cuba [or Republic of Cuba] (The tesimonio is Biography of a Runaway Slave. José Martí wrote “Our America.”)
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